This WeekGet to know piracy old and new, Tightwad Tod, cars you can't buy in the U.S., and the first annual National Day of Listening. Bon appetit from librarians Charlotte, Jennifer, Maria, and Wendy.

Energy [R]evolution
"The energy [r]evolution is an independently produced report that provides a practical blueprint for how to half global CO2 emissions, while allowing for an increase in energy consumption by 2050. ... [I]t explains how existing energy technologies can be applied in more efficient ways." Site includes the report, examples of projects, policy recommendations, and related material. From Greenpeace International and the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC).
URL: http://www.energyblueprint.info/
LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27165

Digital Youth Research
Website for a project that "explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives" outside of school. In addition to a report and the book "Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media," the site features project background, field stories, and a bibliography covering digital media and education, gaming, mobile phone culture, and related topics. Administered by the Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley.
URL: http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/
LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27247

Government

Center for Ethics in Government
Compilation of resources from this center that addresses "this most critical, fundamental and far-reaching problem facing government in America: the loss of public trust and confidence in representative democracy." Features an overview of ethics policy issues, an ethics and lobbying legislation database, publications, links to news stories on ethics, and more. From the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).
URL: http://www.ncsl.org/programs/ethics/
LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27176

Mobile Millennium
Starting in November 2008 and "spanning 18 months, the Mobile Millennium project will design, test and implement a state-of-the-art system to collect traffic data from GPS-equipped mobile phones and estimate traffic conditions in real-time." This site provides background, links to news, and an opportunity for you to download software so your cell phone can become a mobile traffic sensor.
From the California Center for Innovative Transportation, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
URL: http://traffic.berkeley.edu/
LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27162

World News: India
News and analysis of topics about modern India, such as religion, child labor, terrorist attacks, relations with Pakistan and Europe, and its nuclear program. Also includes an "interactive guide to Britain's pullout from India and the disaster that followed," created on the occasion of the 60-year anniversary of the partition of India and Pakistan (2007), and historical coverage of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. From the website of British newspaper The Guardian.
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/india
LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24573